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Abstract—Tire noise has a significant impact on ride quality creates an air pumping effect, which generates high frequency
and vehicle interior comfort, even at low frequency. Reduction of noise [2]. In the case of tires without the block pattern found
tire noise is especially important due to strict state and federal in current tire models, the main source of noise is restricted
environmental regulations. The primary sources of tire noise are the
low frequency structure-borne noise and the noise that originates from to structural-borne noise.
the release of trapped air between the tire tread and road surface Previous experiments and simulations have mostly
during each revolution of the tire. The frequency response of the tire concentrated on eliminating high frequency noise (above 200
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changes at low and high frequency. At low frequency, the tension Hz) [3]. But the behavior of tire noise varies substantially
and bending moment become dominant, while the internal structure with frequency due to the complex structure of tires. For
and local deformation become dominant at higher frequencies. Here,
we analyze tire response in terms of deformation and rolling velocity structural noise, tension and bending becomes predominant
at low revolution frequency. An Abaqus FEA finite element model at low frequency and torsion becomes important at higher
is used to calculate the static and dynamic response of a rolling tire frequency [4]. So the radial and lateral deformation of any
under different rolling conditions. The natural frequencies and mode point on tire is not similar at low and higher frequency range.
shapes of a deformed tire are calculated with the FEA package where It is also convenient to follow the noise at higher frequency.
the subspace-based steady state dynamic analysis calculates dynamic
response of tire subjected to harmonic excitation. The analysis was But at lower frequency, the dynamic response of tire is
conducted on the dynamic response at the road (contact point of tire not easily tractable. For this reason, the current paper only
and road surface) and side nodes of a static and rolling tire when investigate the effects of low frequency noise (below 200Hz)
the tire was excited with 200 N vertical load for a frequency ranging on tire deformation and rolling motion.
from 20 to 200 Hz. The results show that frequency has little effect on To understand the effect of low noise, employing correct
tire deformation up to 80 Hz. But between 80 and 200 Hz, the radial
and lateral components of displacement of the road and side nodes prototypes of the tire is very important. To reduce the
exhibited significant oscillation. For the static analysis, the fluctuation complexity of analysis, ring or plate/shell shape analytical
was sharp and frequent and decreased with frequency. In contrast, the models [5]-[7] were proposed earlier. These simplifications
fluctuation was periodic in nature for the dynamic response of the have reduced the computational effort but limited the
rolling tire. In addition to the dynamic analysis, a steady state rolling importance of complex structural configuration of modern tire.
analysis was also performed on the tire traveling at ground velocity
with a constant angular motion. The purpose of the computation Now for simulation, similar simplified models have been used
was to demonstrate the effect of rotating motion on deformation and earlier and only radial part of contact force was considered
rolling velocity with respect to a fixed Newtonian reference point. by neglecting tangential force of moving tire . To remove the
The analysis showed a significant variation in deformation and rolling constrained mentioned above, we need a proper FE model
velocity due to centrifugal and Coriolis acceleration with respect to which can incorporate correct material behavior and forces
a fixed Newtonian point on ground.
developed during tire rotation. This detailed finite element
Keywords—Natural frequency, rotational motion, steady state models is also necessary to study dynamic response of a tire at
rolling, subspace-based steady state dynamic analysis. different frequency through Eigen value analysis [8]. Now the
dynamic response of tire is not similar for static and rolling tire
I. I NTRODUCTION [9]. But most of the previous analysis have been conducted on
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static tire and neglected centrifugal, Coriolis effects and the
OISE has an adverse environmental effect on urban
dependency of Eigen frequency on rolling motion. So it is
life. Though there has been tremendous development
necessary to study and compare the dynamic response of a
in automotive technology in recent years, noise generated
static and rolling tire at low frequency range.
from vehicles is still a big concern for the auto industry for
Now for the Eigen value analysis, the cost depends on
environmental reasons and because it impacts ride quality.
matrices provided by the finite element model and large-scale
Many moving parts of vehicle generate noise. A significant
systems of linear equations. Generally direct solution analysis
portion of the noise is generated by the tire/road interaction.
is used to calculate linearized response of the dynamic system.
The two main sources of tire noise are 1) structure-borne noise
Though the result from the analysis is very accurate, the
and 2) the noise generated by the horning effect in the tire
method is computationally expensive for complex FE model
grooves during tire /road interaction [1].
of tire [10]. So we need an alternative method which will
In the horning effect, air is sucked in and pushed out of the
solve the problem with almost similar accuracy but at less
contact area at the tire tread during each tire revolution, which
computational cost. The subspace-based steady state dynamics
Md Monir Hossain is with the Virginia Tech, United States (e-mail: is such an effective solution for the problem mentioned above.
mdmoh81@vt.edu). In this method, steady-state dynamic equations are projected
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is described in Eulerian (spatial) manner and the deformation cases. The axisymmetric model was discretized with bilinear
is described in Lagrangian manner. A short overview on steady elements. A partial three-dimensional model was generated by
state rolling tire analysis can be found in literature review revolving the axisymmetric model about the rotational axis.
[11], [12]. Now the problem arise when rotational motion is The generated partial model is shown in figure 1. This partial
introduced in analysis. Rotational motion enforces centrifugal three-dimensional model is also composed of bilinear elements
and Coriolis acceleration which were absent in most of the except for footprint region where more linear elements have
previous computations. Besides, velocity and acceleration of been utilized to increase resolution near contact patch. The
any point on tire will not be similar with respect to reference full three-dimensional model was generated by reflecting the
point on tire and fixed Newtonian reference point on ground. partial three-dimensional model. One thing should be noted
Here the tire is not only rotating on its own reference axis but that all the elements used for the analysis is hybrid in nature.
also rotating against a fixed reference frame on ground. So the The hybrid element is suitable for large deformation and avoid
calculation of any parameter with respect to fixed reference shear and volume locking. The construction of FE model
point on ground should include change of local parameter on was very similar to real tire except for the absence of any
rotational body and relative motion of local reference point specific tread pattern. The tread pattern was not introduce in
with respect to fixed point on ground. the model to restrict the source of noise only from structure
To remove the constraints discussed above, first part of of tire. The tread and sidewalls are made of rubber, and
the current paper deals with steady state analysis of a the belts and carcass are constructed from fiber-reinforced
rolling tire with respect to fixed Newtonian fixed point on rubber composites. The viscoelastic rubber was modeled as an
ground.As a consequence,centrifugal and Coriolis force have incompressible hyper-elastic material by 1-term Prony series.
been included in the Eulerian-Lagrangian analysis. Before For viscoelastic model, the value of relaxation modulus was
steady state rolling, static foot print analysis of the tire has g p = 0.3 and its associated relaxation time was τ p = 0.1.
been performed with different loading conditions and the For accurate representation of FE model, property of material
corresponding deformations have been analyzed for half and should be similar to real tire values.
full tire model The second part of the paper deals with dynamic
analysis of tire. At first, dynamic analysis has been conducted
III. S TATIC A NALYSIS OF T IRE
on static tire and the natural frequencies and mode shapes of
a deformed tire have been calculated by using finite element Static analysis of a tire was performed prior to steady state
package (Abaqus). Then the FE model of tire was excited rolling analysis. Then the final results from static analysis
with 200N harmonic load at low frequency (20-200 Hz) and was transferred as the initial results for steady state analysis.
the corresponding response of road and side node of tire During static analysis,tire was kept in static condition and
have been obtained at low frequency range. For rolling tire, load was applied to the tire over several steps. In the current
similar analysis have been performed and the results have been simulation, the tire was inflated with a pressure of 200.0 kPa
compared with static tire analysis. The results of current study and a vertical load of 1.7 kN was applied to the rigid body
will help us to understand steady state and dynamic response reference node for partial three-dimensional model to represent
of a static and rolling tire at low frequency range. a 3.4 kN load in the full three-dimensional model. The
contact between road and tire was modeled as hard contact.
The penalty method approximates hard pressure-overclosure
II. M ODEL G ENERATION
behavior. As the tire was static, the friction between road and
For correct computational analysis, the elements of FE tire was considered zero and the contact between two surfaces
model should be selected carefully. The tire model can be were modeled using contact pair algorithm. The deformation
either discretized with equal number of elements or can be of final step is shown in Fig. 2 and contact area and pressure
discretized non uniformly with more elements near the region is shown in Fig. 3.
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In the previous case, the footprint region was discretized effects, inertia effects, and history-dependent material models
with more elements than the remaining circumferential were included during the study. The purpose of the steady
element of tire. In the second case, the tire was modeled state analysis analysis was to obtain free rolling equilibrium
with equal number of bilinear elements over the partial tire solutions of a 175 SR14 tire traveling at a ground velocity of
model. For the second simulation, similar steps were followed 10.0 km/h (2.7778 m/s). The model is shown in Fig. 5 [13]
as discussed in previous case with identical applied loads and where the ground velocity of body is described in terms of a
boundary conditions and the interaction region between road constant cornering motion.
and tire displayed almost similar deformation. Fig. 4 (a) shows For steady state condition, velocity and
the component wise deformation of partial model tire. Once acceleration in the reference frame tied to the
the static footprint solution for the partial three-dimensional body can be expressed by following equations [13]:
model has been established, symmetric results transfer was
∂λ
used to transfer the solution to the full three-dimensional Vr = Ωn × (x − Xc ) + ωR (1)
model and the footprint solution was brought into equilibrium ∂S
in a single static increment. The deformation of full tire is ∂X ∂2λ
shown in Fig. 4 (b). ar = Ω2 (nn − I).(x − Xc ) + 2ωΩRn × + ω 2 R2 2 (2)
∂S ∂ S
Here Vr and ar is the velocity and acceleration of reference
IV. S TEADY S TATE T RANSPORT A NALYSIS point on tire respectively. Ω is the rotational velocity with
For steady state analysis in current study, a mixed Eulerian/ respect to fixed point on ground and ω is the local angular
Lagrangian method has been used where the rigid body velocity. λ is used for mapping between Eulerian and
rotation is describer in an Eulerian manner and deformation of Lagrangian frame. s represents distance along circumferential
tire as an Lagrangian manner. Thus the kinematics of problem direction of tire and R is the radius of a point on the
has been converted to transient to spatial dependent problem. reference body. The velocity expression depends only on
In addition, the analysis requires less time due to fine meshing local rotational velocity of tire with respect to own axis and
only in the region of interest. In the analysis, frictional rotational velocity with respect to Newtonian fixed frame on
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(a) Shear stress along the road shear stress developed due to continuous interaction of tire
with road surface in the footprint region. Fig. 10 shows shear
stress developed near the footprint region along the road and
transverse direction of travel with friction co-efficient 0.2
during straight line motion study.
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(a) Deformation (u3) at road node Fig. 14 Eigen frequency at rolling velocity
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the dynamic response it can be concluded that displacement
becomes small for rolling tire but does not die out at lower
frequency range in contrast to dynamic analysis of static
tire.In contrast to static analysis the displacement was small
in magnitude and periodic in nature for vertical and lateral
direction and continuously increased between 150 to 200 Hz.
For road direction, the displacement was almost zero until 180
Hz and then increased very sharply between 190-200 Hz. From
the dynamic response it can be concluded that displacement
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VI. C ONCLUSION
Static footprint and steady state transport analysis have
been performed prior to dynamic analysis of tire at different
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